ABC15.com (Phoenix, AZ) - President Obama Launches Attack on Arizona Immigration Law

ABC15.com  (Phoenix, AZ)

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Barack Obama and Mexico's visiting President Felipe Calderon wasted little time attacking Arizona's new immigration law during a White House briefing Wednesday.

President Obama called the law a ''mis-directed'' response to the nation's immigration problems.

"I think the Arizona law has the potential of being applied in a discriminatory fashion,"  Obama said.

Simply put, Arizona's 16-page immigration law makes it illegal for any person to be in the state without carrying verification proving citizenship or legal residency.  It also gives law enforcement officers the authority to ask suspects they consider suspicious for documentation.

"No law abiding person, be they an American citizen, a legal immigrant, or a visitor or tourist from Mexico should ever be subject to suspicion simply because of what they look like," Obama said.

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) will file an amicus brief in support of defending the law and to challenge the ACLU and other organizations that filed a federal lawsuit challenging it.

ACLJ attorney, Jordan Sekulow from Washington D.C., said not even the president can point to one thing unconstitutional about Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants.

"There's actually more strict federal law under the Immigration and Naturalization Act," argued Sekulow.  "You've got sections in there that give federal law enforcement officers even more power than what have been given to local and state law enforcement officers in Arizona."

You can watch the video report here.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Wednesday spoke on the Jay Sekulow Live! radio show,
co-hosted by Jordan Sekulow, claiming something had to be done to stop 1,000 undocumented people from crossing our borders.

"It's illegal to enter the country without documentation no different then any other country," Brewer said.

Obama admitted the federal government has failed to get the job done.

"I think the Arizona law expresses some of the frustrations of not fixing a broken immigration system," he said.

"A nation without borders is like a house without walls," Brewer added.  "It just simply collapses."

Click here to listen to Governor Brewer's interview on Jay Sekulow Live!

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